From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail2.fone.net ([206.168.68.165]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I0LLv-0007JQ-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:49:23 -0400 Received: from GRANDMA (ip-206-123-194-16.static.fasttrackcomm.net [206.123.194.16]) by mail2.fone.net (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id l5IFYVl5002938 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <013a01c7b1be$2a680070$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <007901c7b065$01102810$9501a8c0@yellobow><002d01c7b076$5a9ff390$ab00a8c0@tenstac><20070617012623.GA24480@localhost.localdomain> <001501c7b08a$1f274070$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:25 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000750-1, 06/18/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:49:23 -0000 If you do a make oldconfig, with your distro's kernel, in debian the one found in /boot I believe, it will ask you questions about the kernel that aren't in the old config. also, if speakup patches, I'd mrproper, then put the config in, and patch speakup in. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ [My programs don't have bugs; just randomly added features] msn: compgeek13@gmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 vertigo head coder web: tysdomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 8:49 PM Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3? > > >> Actually, as far as I know, and this is what I've always done, you're >> supposed to untar the kernel, patch with speakup, run make mrproper >> clean, then copy a .config file into place if any. Also, if you're just >> building a freshly untared kernel from kernel.org without speakup, or >> any other patches, you don't need to do make mrproper, I never did >> that in those cases. > > If you read the kernel FAQ it states that even if a fresh kernel from > source you should do mrproper because there is a chance that some > old stuff gets left behind when they package it. Better safe than sorry, > always do mrproper before building a kernel. It can't hurt anything > and does make sure there are no old deps or object modules around. > mrproper is a superset of clean so if you do that you don't need to > also do clean. > > Also, it doesn't seem right to copy an existing .config after doing the > speakup patch. The speakup patch adds new items into .config after > speakup is selected in menuconfig, the CONFIG_SPEAKUP and > other related entries. If you copied in a .config from a kernel without > speakup then it won't have the speakup stuff in .config. If you copy > some existing .config then it may not match the kernel that you are > compiling from source. If it's the same kernel version that you used > before it will work, but if you now have a newer kernel it may or > may not work, and you might be missing some new stuff that's in the > newer kernel version. > > It is a pain to go through the config, but worthwhile to understand > what you need and don't for your hardware. There is so much in > the kernel that is not needed on most systems. If you set all those > to not be included, then you have a whole lot less to compile. > > -- Doug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup